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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University life; they are played by our fellow students and friends, and we all want to see them. We ought then to have this privilege at the lowest possible cost. In the face of a $20,000 surplus and the fact that the tendency has been to reduce this item of expense to members of the University one looks in vain for some justification for the Athletic Committee's action in imposing this additional tax. We all know there is a heavy debt on the Stadium, but the $20,000 surplus would seem to indicate that we are doing...
...expected that reduced railroad fares will be secured from all points. Each man attending the conference will be charged a program fee of $5. Board for the ten days will cost $9, and dormitory room $3, but a reduction in the last item will be made for men living in tents. The University will be represented by a delegation, as usual...
...existed for many years without subsidies; indeed the practice of helping them out from the general funds was of recent origin. Nevertheless, the amount of money still assigned to them under the heading "Permanent equipment" makes a respectable sum, Again, to give an idea of how an apparently trifling item may mean a really considerable total, we can take the case of the granting of sweaters, medals, photographs, etc. The Committee has restricted its donations in this respect as overgenerous, and yet, though the minor teams and Freshmen have to pay for themselves, the annual expense to the common treasury...
...income of which was available in the preceding year, contributed to a loss of income amounting to $18,242.99. Furthermore, the cost of maintaining the New Lecture Hall, the Germanic Museum, the Semitic Museum and the Stillman Infirmary, contributed largely to an increase of $16,892.42 in the item of expenses on College buildings. The closing of the Veterinary School account by a final payment of $11,161.60 on its debt and expenses, was a further burden on the University. These items, it will be seen, more than account for the year's deficit. Unfortunately the deficit has been charged...
Aside from the more practical objections, some of us feel that the tendency to make the public more and more an item of first consideration in University exercises is doing us all a good deal of harm. The public might misunderstand the spirit of our fellowship as thoroughly as they have misunderstood the spirit of our sport...